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Here is a list of our artists. To learn about them and see pictures of their work, click on the names. To enlarge the pictures, click on them.
Pat Anna. - Fiber Roger Asay. - Wood Wendy Blair - Jewelry Linda Blumel - Jewelry Eleanor Bostwick - Fiber, Monoprint Royce Carlson - Metal Art Mark and Cody Carter - Handmade Leather Shoes Peggotty Christensen - Wearable Fabric Sharon Cipriano - Jewelry Bill Colligen - Gourd Art Leigh Cosby - Pottery & Raku David Delthony - Wood Furniture D.L.Downer - Jewelry Bandhu Scott Dunham - Glass |
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In 1994, Pat took a weaving class and she has been expanding her knowledge and skills ever since. Her inspiration comes from colors and the beauty of nature and she is intrigued by the way colors affect one another and how changing the placement of a color influences the result. |
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Roger Asay Roger's unique approach to wood design was developed in the early 1990's in conjunction with his wife, Rebecca Davis. Each sphere is shaped by hand without the use of a lathe and usually from a single kind of tree or bush that Roger has gathered locally. In addition to the spheres, Roger and Rebecca do large arrangements of stone, earth, sand and gravel or poles, sticks and logs. |
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Wendy Blair The explosive beauty of Maui, where Wendy spent many years, is incorporated into her jewelry as is the beauty of the desert since she has become an Arizona resident. Wendy uses the finest stones and beads to create her artistic and elegant pieces of jewelry. |
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Laura Bloomenstein Laura received her MFA in ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and her BFA in ceramics from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She also studied with several of the best ceramicists while studying at the Kansas City Art Institute. Laura exhibits her work nationally. |
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Linda Blumel Linda is a juried member of the Arizona Designer Craftsmen and a member of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. The stones that she uses are usually the major focus of her work; she is drawn to clean, simple lines, and likes to combine unusual color combinations and textures. |
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Eleanor Bostwick Eleanor's love of fibers inspires her wondrous depictions of the world around her in her weavings, works of paper and stitchery. The third dimension is always reflected in her work. She achieves great depth by using layer upon layer of stitches or cloth,or whatever fiber she has at her fingertips. |
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Royce Carlson Royce worked in many media for years but after moving to Prescott he began creating welded steel sculptures. He works with found objects and "skeleton" plates which are the pieces remaining after industrial parts are cut out of steel sheets. He produces large durable outdoor art and enjoys creating kinetic sculptures, particulary ones that move in the wind. |
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Mark and Cody Carter Mark and Cody, the designers and makers of the funkiest shoes in the universe, live and work in Prescott. Born in England, Mark learned about shoemaking from South Africans in London. Cody studied fine art at the University of Arizona. Together they cut out and sew the shoes from pre-dyed leathers and then they add their embellishments. |
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Peggotty Christensen Peggotty creates contemporary garments and accessories combining unique hand-painted designs, elegant fabrics and timeless silhouettes. She suspends fabric in a frame and paints abstract paintings. She loves the painting process but always designs the painting around the shape of the garments. |
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Bill Colligen In1995, I took a trip with a friend to Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico and discovered the amazing gourd art by Robert Rivera. I became so inspired by this medium that I started to play with gourds, myself. As I progressed, I realized that detail was my forte. Inspired by Native American geometric pottery along with Asian influences I began my own style of gourd art. My techniqes include: relief carving, pyro-engraving, metal leafing, acrylic dots, ink dyes, inlaid stone, bamboo/reed handles and are finished with a patinaed bronze application. |
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Leigh Cosby Leigh’s love affair with “mud” began in college. Today, Leigh is still enthralled with clay….creating both high-fire functional pottery and decorative raku. |
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David Delthony Training and experience in Pennsylvania, Turkey, New York, and Berlin led to David's concept of sculpting furniture in wood. The process moves from envisioning to laminating, chain sawing, sanding, and finishing. He works alone and produces a limited number of pieces a year in Utah where he and his wife live in an old sawmill. |
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D.L.Downer Doug's creations evolve from unusual approaches in the lost wax process. Natural texture and form are combined with various metals and gems |
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Bandhu Scott Dunham Whimsy and elegance are the yin and yang of Bandhu's glass pieces. He incorporates the patterns of nature and nature's effects on man-made structures. He also bends the glass to express odd juxtapositions; he enjoys the fluid and malleable properties of glass as well as color and transparency. |
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James Eddy Jim has always been "making things." He worked in theater and made environments for the actors in the scene shop. Leaving the theater, he continued building furniture. Now Jim produces a collection of well-designed, hand-crafted lamps in the American and English Arts and Crafts style. He explores new facets of woodworking and woodturning, including the use of veneer and applique. |
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Katherine Farr
Katherine, who lives in Flagstaff, has been working with fibers her whole life, eventually settling on weaving. Her focus is primarily on functional pieces such as hats, shawls and sweaters. She blends colors and textures as well as the blending of mediums - felting and weaving with knitting. |
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Jenny Foster Native Arizonan Jenny grew up along the Colorado River, surrounded by petroglyphs and other ancient relics. Her paintings and sculptures reflect that influence; they are, at once, primitive and contemporary as they join together abstract forms and symbols with joyful colors. |
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Joanne Frerking After moving from art to history to political theory and the academic life, Joanne returned to her creative side. Her work runs the gamut from two-dimensional to functional, tied together by her love for fiber and for color and design. Joanne's work is more conceptual than realistic. |
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Gild the Lily Two people are Gild the Lily. Jacquelyn Rice is the former head of ceramics at Rhode Island School of Design and former dean of fine arts there. Uosis Juodvalkis, a nationally recognized photographer and founder of ColorLab in Providence, RI, is the other half. They produce wearable art and jewelry. |
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Karen Harmon After living and visiting many places around the world, including Tanzania and Africa, Karen settled in Prescott seven years ago. She weaves her impressions of the complex world using rich colors, intriguing shapes and strong dimensions and yet feels that simplicity is the key to her work. "Simplicity is complexity resolved." |
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Judy Hegenauer Judy spent most of her life in education as a teacher, an administrator, college professor and educational consultant. She found her meditative moments when she learned to weave. Now she makes weaving an important part of her life. Excellent at blending color as well as texture, Judy's woven creations are a treat to the eye. |
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Aimee Herring After studying ceramics under a master potter in Namibia, Africa in 2003, Aimee opened a studio in Louisville Colorado, where she creates her work using high-quality porcelain clay. She began working with clay to capture the vibrant delicacy of life in a single piece of work that could be held and touched. Through her work, she strives to preserve the vulnerability of the clay while using its form as a canvas for vibrant colors and soft lines. |
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Adam Homan Adam is one of the premiere fantasy sculptors in the country. He is the sole sculptor of each piece and does not use forms or castings, combining the skills or armor making with modern welding along with a special finishing process. He adds florescent fiber optics which gives a piece a personality that seems to be looking back at the viewer. |
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Alex Horst Simple geometry and clean lines are the cornerstone to Alex's gemstone carvings and jewelry creations because they allow the elegance and beauty of nature to speak for itself. He then adds gemstones - either sparkling or opaque - to create visual texture, brilliance and balance. Metal creates a function fram for the stone. Alex was born in Denver to a family who ran a jewelry supply business and now he lives in Prescott. |
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Frank Luedtke and Lin Mullins Frank and Lynn have been collaborating on assorted creative projects for over thirty years; they live in Cordes Lakes, AZ. Frank is a designer, furniture maker and wood turner with pieces featured in "The Art of the Lathe." Lin is primarily a fabric artist specializing in her own unique style of vibrantly hued contemporary quilted wall hangings. |
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John O'Neil Lutes John's artistic talent became apparent when he was a child and has evolved throughout his education and business life. Since moving to Prescott in 1981 he has worked with blown glass. "The fluid glass art forms express a dichotomy of natural and botanical patterns as exoteric modern art. My creativity flows symbiotically with the innate body of molten glass." |
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Nathan Macomber Nathan has been involved in first learning and then teaching glass blowing since 1995. He spent the first seven years of his career in glass working in Prescott where he developed his style and body of work. He now lives in the White Mountains of Conway, NH, working in his own private studio. |
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Norm Macdonald Norm claims never to have wielded a paint brush narrower than three inches until his 68th year. A course at Yavapai College called, simply, "COLOR," launched his second career as a painter. He creates non-representational color fields on different support surfaces that are pleasing to, or jolt, the eye. |
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Dan McCabe At the age of 19, Dan was hired as an apprentice in one of the first fine art bronze foundries in Sedona, AZ. For the next 20 years he mastered all the facets of the lost wax casting process and the precision fabrication needed to produce a bronze sculpture. He also acquired the education, expertise and passion of metalworking. His work has met with great acclaim. |
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David McDonald David trained in Mashiko and Kyoto, Japan masters which allowed him in-depth training in the traditional lineage of pottery as a way of life. In 1980 he founded his own pottery studio in Arizona and creates, within his own nation and culture, a life that resembles the grace of simple form and simple beauty found in the Japanese culture. |
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Steve McGovney Working from his studio in Prescott, Steve creates wild and unusual teapots. He uses the fixed "functional" design elements of feet, spout and handles in multiple configurations but blends into his pieces the life inside a book. Steve uses the state of consciousness we enter when engrossed in a book when making a ceramic mold which is slip cast with individual elements being added as desired. |
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Jeannine and Charles McKenzie Jeannine and Charles practice their art in their solar-powered log cabin in Michigan. Each piece made by the McKenzies is individually fabricated from sterling silver, copper, brass and bronze. The pearls used are all freshwater, and the posts and nuts on the earrings are surgical stainless steel and hypoallergenic. |
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Joyce Nelson Horse Hair Pottery is part of the Southwest tradition of working with the earth, horse and fire. Joyce hand forms raw clay and fires it in a raku kiln. The Spirit of the Horse is captured when the hair from a horse's mane or tail is manipulated onto the red-hot clay shape. Joyce has lived in Arizona for 21 years and is a self-taught potter of 30 years. |
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Dale O'Dell Dale is a photographer and digital artist based in Prescott. For "The Surreal Landscape," Dale begins with real landscape as a strating point and then rearranges natural elements to create places that he'd like to visit but which don't exist except in his imagination. |
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Bill Ooms A second-generation wood turner, Bill is now combining his wood turning skills with his math and engineering background to create unique wood sculptures, starting with 3D computer simulation. The lathe is Bill's primary carving tool and the shaping is done with hand-held chisels, creating curves and shapes pleasing to the touch as well as pleasant to see. |
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Carol and Tom Paretti In the 1970's, Tom took apart a kaleidoscope prize he found in a Cracker Jack box in order to discover the secret behind the magic. Now the Parettis make every piece of their kaleidoscopes by hand in their northern Arizona studio. They use exotic woods, adding leather and anodized aluminum. |
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Tania Radda A rising star in the world of wood, Tania begins with the life-like characteristics of various insects, plants and animals but then adds a "twist" enabling the viewer to experience nature from a different perspective. Tania grew up in Brazil where she experienced up close the fascinating aspects of nature that drive her often cartoonish works of fantasy. |
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Chris Ramsey A full-time, award-winning turner, Chris usually crafts his works from a single, unique piece of wood with no gluing or joining of individual pieces. He delights in "thin=walled" turning with many of his works achieving a thickness of a mere 3/32 of an inch. He finishes with twenty coats of lacquer applied over a period of several days followed by hand rubbing. |
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Marna Schindler Sand Diego, CA, is Marna's home. She worked as a graphic artist before becoming a full-time painter. Describing her work as organic, colorful, playful, and meditative, she says, "I find the best results come from a careful combination of focus and detachment. I think it is very important not to stifle the piece, and to let it become what it wants." |
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Carolyn Schmitz Carolyn has painted everything from motorcycles to pillows! Illustrating for landscape architects led her to learn all about native plants. She also painted murals and furniture for interior designers. Now she has returned to her childhood stone home in the forest in prescott and produces works teeming with the elements of nature, philosophy and the experiences of her lifetime. |
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Mary Ann Sears Mary Ann studied painting and dance at ASU. She now works fulltime as an artist doing both painting and monoprinting. The influence of dance movement is evident in the graceful, flowing contours, rich background hues, and staccato accents of neon and jewel tones that are in her compositions. She produces both figurative and abstract pieces. |
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Fredric Shore Fredric started out his career in filmmaking in Los Angeles where he achieved great success. Moving on, he sought to capture the natural landscape without compromise and uses a large format wooden camera as a paintbrush with natural light as his paint. He produces archivally preserved prints in both color and black & white. |
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Chelsea Stone A jewelry artist, Chelsea uses silver, gold, copper, handmade glass beads, colorful gemstones, and brightly colored enamels. She combines these colorful gemstones, and brightly colored enamels. She combines these elements with a sense of humor and multiple layers of detail. Her narrative pieces often open to reveal secret ingredients and may be as visually interesting on the backside as on the front. |
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Cindy Strang A life-long Arizonan, Cindy began beading just three years ago after taking classes with a local artist. She has created her own unique style of beads and bling. She uses vintage beads and buttons, gemstones and semi-precious stones along with other interesting beads and stones she finds. |
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Karen Van Price Studies of African art, the Renaissance, modern art and individual artists are combined in Karen Van Price’s work. Since moving to Prescott she has become heavily involved in community activities. Karen teaches classes in hand building, coiling and wheel throwing at her studio. She hopes that her ceramic creations will bring a smile to your heart.
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